HTML to PDF

[Bruce Jin]

I wonder if there is any software that can convert html file to FDP. I seemed to come across such tools but have not used them for a long time.
iText may have limited capability to convert xml file thus XHTML.
Thanks.

[Bruno Lowagie]

Originally posted by Bruce Jin:
I wonder if there is any software that can convert html file to FDP. I seemed to come across such tools but have not used them for a long time.
iText may have limited capability to convert xml file thus XHTML.
Thanks.

There's an entry about this in the FAQ.
There is limited XHTML to PDF support in com.lowagie.text.html (HtmlParser), but this is not a full blown HTML parser. Small HTML code snippets should be parsed with HtmlWorker (see chapter 14 of 'iText in Action').

[Bruce Jin]

Thanks for the response.

If there is a full blown html to pdf parser wouldn�t that be wonderful? It is so easy to construct html files.

[Bruno Lowagie]

Originally posted by Bruce Jin:
If there is a full blown html to pdf parser wouldn�t that be wonderful? It is so easy to construct html files.

There's ICEBrowser using iText (but ICEBrowser isn't free).
There's HTMLDoc.
And I'll look into the comment that was posted on the FAQ recently.
It would be nice to use the HTML parser that comes with the JDK in combination with iText to render HTML to PDF.

[Bruce Jin]

Thanks for the info.

HTMLDoc is not free either. $69.